Word: transiting
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Kenmore station was flooded under eight feet of water and service to Newton, Brookline, Watertown and Brighton has been paralyzed since Saturday. MTA officials hope to have the four rapid transit lines back in operation by tomorrow, and in the interim have put emergency Lus service into operation in the affected area...
...theater itself, the glittering audience, rather than the widely panned play about the family problems of a President after leaving office, was the whole show. Eighteen buses, furnished gratis by the D.C. Transit System, gathered the 600 top ticket holders from their dinners and deposited them at the National Theater. There nearly a thousand spectators jostled fashion reporters for glimpses of the nation's best beaded, brocaded and beminked women. They gasped their approval when Jacqueline Kennedy stepped out of a limousine encased in the stunning pinks, golds and greens of a full-length Chinese brocade skirt, green velvet...
First victims of the new radiation were three U.S. satellites, TRAAC, Ariel and Transit IV-B, that were knocked out of commission, presumably because of damage to the solar cells that supply their power. Fortunately, the communication satellite Telstar has been unharmed; its solar cells are covered by protective windows of sapphire. In the future, says NASA, all its satellites will have sapphire windows; other necessary changes have not yet been determined. Though the problem is serious, NASA's experts think the new radiation will not affect manned U.S. satellite flights...
...Part of a complex of new state capitol buildings now under construction, the Cultural Center will cost $6,000,000, is being financed by the New Jersey Teachers' Pension and Annuity Fund. The planetarium's dome will float over a reflecting pool, will house an "intermediate space transit instrument" which will project the heavens not only as they appear on earth but from the moon...
...fortunate enough to have a car, be wise enough to leave it in the garage. Save it for your week-end trip to Tanglewood or Cape Cod. Boston is no place to drive in. Scooters are fine, and walking is even better; but for most, the public transit system will do best. It's called the MTA, and 20 cents will get you almost anywhere. Park Street Station in downtown Boston is the hub of this underground network. But, remember the subways and buses stop...